Electing Big Data: It’s Bigger than the White House

No matter who you voted for or what your party affiliation is, the clear winner in this election was awareness of Big Data, both within the insider circles of the DC Beltway as well as the general public.

No one in tech is loudly complaining yet, but there’s a funny sort of co-opting of Silver by the political left wing of America going on right now since he accurately predicted President Obama’s re-election. This might get under the skin of long time Big Data nerds, since this has lead to a proliferation of folks in political punditry who claim a monopoly on concepts of math and Big Data similar to the bloom of the “social media guru” during the early days of social media.